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OG&E Expands Use of Cannon Technologies
Substation Equipment Monitoring Systems
Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 11, 2004
- Cannon Technologies, Inc. (http://www.cannontech.com)
of Golden Valley, MN announced today that OG&E Electric
Services, Oklahoma City, OK, is proceeding with expansion
of its substation monitoring system using Cannon Technologies'
Substation Advisor® and Esubstation™
products. Cannon Technologies has received an order from
OG&E to add the Esubstation™ and Substation Advisor®
systems to five more substations in its Oklahoma-Arkansas
service areas, with additional expansion planned for subsequent
years.
OG&E implemented Cannon Technologies' Substation
Advisor® System at Robinson Substation in 1999,
and added the Esubstation™ intelligent monitoring
and messaging system in 2001. Mike Cannon, Vice President
of Substation Systems at Cannon Technologies, states "We
are extremely pleased with OG&E's decision to expand their
Esubstation™ and Substation Advisor®
systems, and look forward to continuing our partnership
to monitor critical electric system assets."
The OG&E browser-based system enables Esubstation™
to provide cost effective enterprise access to information
available at the substation without jeopardizing the security
of the EMS/SCADA system, and with minimal drain on existing
IT resources.
New installations will utilize Cannon Technologies'
open architecture Substation Advisor® System
to integrate information from existing RTUs and IEDs with
third-party and Cannon Technologies sensor equipment. After
local processing in the data gateway, information is presented
via the Internet to Esubstation™, using DNP protocol,
for filtering and archival in the historical database.
The sensors and IEDs monitor power transformer,
circuit breaker, and distribution feeder parameters such
as temperature, cooling status, combustible gas (3rd party
sensors), load tap changer operations/position, feeder load,
reactive power flow, breaker trip time, insulating gas density,
and auxiliary systems. Alert messages with limit violations
are distributed to personnel via email or other selected
communication medium. Access to a private Esubstation™
Web site provides real-time information for verification
of alert conditions, as well as historical trends, fault
information (from relays), and access to limit settings.
New projects will also include substation live video access
for remote site inspection.
Esubstation™ is a module of Cannon Technologies'
Yukon™ distribution automation software platform,
which also includes modules for direct load management,
load curtailment, meter data collection and aggregation,
distributed generation control, and centralized capacitor
control. Yukon™ functionality is offered as a service
running on Cannon Technologies servers, or as a licensed
installation in the utility data center.
OG&E
Electric Services, (http://www.oge.com)
is a regulated electric utility company, serving about 700,000 retail
customers in Oklahoma and western Arkansas,
and a number of wholesale customers throughout the region. OG&E, with
eight power plants capable of producing about 5,800 megawatts, generates
about
70 percent
of its electricity from low-sulfur Wyoming coal and 30 percent from natural
gas. The company delivers electricity across an interconnected transmission
and distribution
system spanning 30,000 square miles.
Cannon Technologies, Inc. is a privately
held company founded in 1987 specializing in the development of software
and hardware systems for electric utility automation including load
management, substation information systems, capacitor control,
and remote metering.
Cannon Technologies' user
base exceeds 300 electric utilities. The company is based in Golden
Valley (Minneapolis), Minnesota, and has branch offices in North Dakota,
Iowa,
Colorado, Nebraska,
Virginia, California and Texas.
For more information contact:
info@cannontech.com
Cannon Technologies, Inc.
8301 Golden
Valley Road, Suite 300
Golden Valley, MN 55427
763-595-7777
www.cannontech.com
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